Tuesday, May 12, 1942

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The Headlines

HENDERSON URGES WAGES BE FROZEN TO AVOID INFLATION; House Committee Members Say He Advocated Step, Warning Situation Is Dangerous ALSO ASKS FORCED SAVING Price Administrator Favors Deeper Cut in Income-Tax Exemptions Than Treasury HENDERSON URGES WAGES BE FROZEN

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Tangerine

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Red Ryder BB Gun

On This Day

• World War II: Second Battle of Kharkov: In eastern Ukraine, Red Army forces under Marshal Semyon Timoshenko launch a major offensive from the Izium bridgehead, only to be encircled and destroyed by the troops of Army Group South two weeks later.

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• World War II: The U.S. tanker SS Virginia is torpedoed in the mouth of the Mississippi River by the German submarine U-507.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Florence Nightingale (1820)
• Katharine Hepburn (1907)
• Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
• Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
• George Carlin (1937)

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Tech Check

V-2 Rocket, Bazooka & Napalm.

Cost of Living (1940)